I had another thread about this theme some time ago (see...
A couple of months ago, I saw a small bronze ancient Egyptian Apis bull for sale at a gallery where I've been making occasional purchases for...
Now that the Marius Capito coin from Nomos, and the Macedonian shield/elephant head coin from Forvm have arrived, I've decided to follow my own...
I think I'm developing an elephant habit, Roman Republican and otherwise. I couldn't resist this one, which becomes my 6th ancient elephant coin...
I recently bought a Probus antoninianus from the Serdica (now Sofia, Bulgaria) Mint, 4th emission (according to Karl Pink, I believe). It's my...
I've mentioned before that I generally don't like buying ancient coins at auction, and have never done so except from Frank Robinson and the...
Until a couple of months ago, my earliest royal woman portrayed on a Roman Imperial coin was Hadrian's wife Sabina (unless one believes that Pax...
I've wanted a Roman Republican coin with a desultor on the reverse ever since I first saw an example, probably here on Coin Talk. I recently saw...
I think this is only the second Roman Republican denarius I've bought this year. At this rate, I'll end up with only about one-third as many...
I realized this morning that I joined Coin Talk one year ago today, on January 29, 2020. This is my 3,055th "message," almost all of them in the...
Until @Sulla80 pointed it out in another thread a while back, in commenting on a coin that @Al Kowsky had posted, I had no idea that when a...
I've posted quite a few photos here of objects from my antiquities collection, most recently in the thread about the closing of the Royal Athena...
See https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/01/archaeologists-discover-medieval-treasure-hoard-in-central-hungary/136764 According to the article,...
I recently posted (see...
After operating for 78 years under the same proprietor, Jerome Eisenberg -- who started as a mail-order ancient coin dealer in 1942 at the age of...
In my recent thread about my new Hadrian tetradrachm with a reverse depicting a mummiform Ptah-Sokar-Osiris (see...
I said in my recent thread about my new Julia Titi dupondius that I'd also love to have a coin of Domitia -- despite the extremely defamatory...
I hesitated (briefly!) to buy this coin because of the poor reverse, but I like the portrait on the obverse, and it wasn't very expensive. I've...
Has anyone in the USA recently been successful in ordering and receiving coins from Germany? I had some bad experiences with shipments from...
My interest in the first of these was inspired by the wonderful example in @finny's Top 10 for 2020 thread. The second is one I've wanted for a...
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